Episode 26 profiles the Climate Music Project, a San Francisco-based team that brings together scientists, musicians, and graphic artists to create new ways to communicate climate science.  The CMP's innovative multi-media presentations offer hard data with an emotional score and compelling visuals to transform audience members' personal engagement with climate change.  We feature interviews with co-founders Stephen Crawford and Fran Schulberg, climatologist Garrett Boudinot, and composer Erik Ian Walker, along with excerpts from five of the CMP's groundbreaking pieces.

Music:
"What If We...?"
composed and performed
by Wendy Loomis
with Royal Kent

"Why Does The Sun Shine?"
Performed by Tom Glazer
From "Space Songs"
Motivation Records
MR 0312

"Why Does The Sun Shine?"
"Why Does The Sun
(Really) Shine?"
Performed by
They Might Be Giants
Late Late Show
December 11, 2009

"Der Rufer"
Composed by Michael Edgerton
Performed by
Bremer Schlagzeugensemble
October 10, 2021

"Particle Partita"
Composed by Edward Cowie
Performed by
Peter Sheppard Skærved &
Mihailo Trandafilovsk
St. Michaels Church,
March 1, 2019

"Icarus In Flight"
Composed by Richard Festinger
Performed by
The Telegraph Quartet
San Francisco, 2018

"Climate"
Composed and performed
by Erik Ian Walker
"Audyssey"
Composed and performed
by Eduardo Del Signore
"Voices of the Animals"
Composed and performed
by Scarlet Rivera
Explorers Club, New York City
October, 2024

"I Wanna Be Cool"
Words and music by
Will Kimbrough & Brant Miller
Performed by over 2600
young people from 4 continents
Music Declares Emergency
& The Climate Music Project

"What If We...?"
composed and performed
by Wendy Loomis
with Royal Kent

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